'Security Forces Need Capacity Building: PM', Daily Times, 20 November 2009
EXCERPT: "While terrorists are launching attacks out of 'desperation', security forces have the 'will, resolve and ability' to defend Pakistan, but law-enforcement agencies lack the capacity, said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday. 'We have the will, the resolve and the ability to fight this war, but we lack the capacity. The world should help us build the capacity of our law-enforcement agencies,' Gilani told journalists after addressing the 'Green Journalists Award' distribution ceremony. The prime minister blamed the previous regime for pursuing a 'dual policy of running with the hare and hunting with the hound'. . . 'The US should do more now, and help build the capacity of our forces.'"
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